Project 88 in Mumbai is currently hosting the second solo exhibition of multidisciplinary artist Anupam Roy titled “…ing: Sceneries Without Sovereignty.” Running from September 11 to October 31, 2025, the exhibition was inaugurated with a preview on the opening evening.
Anupam Roy’s new body of work in this exhibition spans diverse media including drawing, painting, writing, sound, video, sculpture, posters, and zines. The works are characterized by a collaborative spirit, often involving contributions from peers, friends, and colleagues. The exhibition emphasizes the theme of ongoingness, reflected in the title “…ing,” which points to the continuous struggles against the violence of extraction and enclosure while asserting the persistence of resistant voices.
Central to Anupam’s work is the inseparability of land and language as co-constituting forces that bear diverse dialects, narratives, and memories. The artist explores how these elements are mutable yet retain traces of their past, framing sovereignty as a shared custodianship across different forms of life. The exhibited works assemble fragments ranging from flora to narratives and images that resist singular interpretations, mirroring the fractured lifeworlds destabilized by hegemonic state and market violence.
